Missing you Dakota on your birthday |
Three years ago, I travelled to Vermillion to help celebrate my 9th granddaughter's first birthday...Chuck's baby, Dakota. Little did I know that this would be the last time I would see her in person...
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 05:06:00 GMT |
Black Shawl Woman |
Tonight my heart aches for and reaches out to my third granddaughter who has once again lost her way. This child is intelligent, caring, generous and beautiful, but has so much hurt, anger and rage b...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:35:00 GMT |
Monsters and Damned Monsters in need of killing |
Recently, one of my granddaughters was beaten by her boyfriend. He beat her in the chest with his fists, kicked her on her legs and thighs with his boots, and threw an unopened can of malt liquor str...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:48:00 GMT |
Relatives and Damned Relatives |
My son finds himself at the center of an unintended family "tiospaye" controversy and has opted to not confront the person who placed him there. I would be remiss as his mother if I did not. In effe...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:48:00 GMT |
Remembering our ancestors and our descendants |
Today is the anniversary of the massacre of my ancestors at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1890. My grandmother, Catherine Carter Claymore, was eight ye...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:57:00 GMT |
The time of the year... |
Christmas has always been my favorite time of the year. I hate to admit it but I think it was dear old St. Joe's that made me love it so. I spent two Christmases at St. Joseph's School for...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:05:00 GMT |
Mom, Beloved Mom |
Today marks the 27th anniversary of my mother's death. As I have previously opined in this Blog, I still miss her and wish that she was still here, not for anything other than to have her living...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:25:00 GMT |
Pushing me Pro Palin |
I am fed up to my increasing wrinkled, turkey neck with all the sanctimonious blowhards (read talking heads) on MSNBC denigrating and mocking Sarah Palin's every act and utterance. To paraphrase...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:04:00 GMT |
Where was I |
Where was I and what was I doing on 9/11? That morning, I flew out of Providence at about 7:10 am EDT enroute to Washington, DC to attend a meeting at the Sheraton Hotel. About a...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:42:00 GMT |
John Vernon Ducheneaux |
I usually try to mark the death anniversaries of my family. June 29th of this year marked ten years since my brother John died. I had intended to note the date by publishing one of my grow...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:23:00 GMT |
